The 2012 Derecho was the worst major summer storm to affect utilities in several States over the past five years.
Vacationers were wearing ponchos instead of swimsuits at the peak of the summer season because of the tropical storm, which has drenched Florida for at least four days straight like a giant shower head set up over the state's Gulf Coast.
As the sun set, a summer storm was gathering, and Henry watched lightning flicker across the clouds.
The aftermath of the storm was compounded by a forecast of another sweltering summer day.
While many Long Beach neighborhoods away from the shore emerged more or less unscathed, the storm struck hard at the bungalows and former summer cottages crowded into the city's West End.
Not long ago we thought this speech would be dominated by the riots, by Britain's long hot summer, but instead it was overshadowed by the economic storm still breaking around our heads.
When I bade you good-bye for the summer, I was bracing for the storm ahead.
The Audubon Zoo is open on weekends, although the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, which lost most of its fish after the storm knocked out power, won't reopen until summer.
As this period comes to a close, it seems as though the summer delay was merely the calm before the storm.
One of the more dramatic sights was in Matunuck, a village in South Kingstown where several beachfront dwellings at a historic 377-cottage summer colony were ripped apart by the storm.
The town, which has mostly primary residences (unlike wealthier summer communities to the south), has torn down 167 condemned houses since the storm and has at least another 57 to go, according to the town administrator.
They hypothesized that shrunken arctic sea ice at the end of summer meant that they had to swim over increasing distances to get to land, and, in a storm, they died of exertion.
We thumbed our phones trying to getting a signal, exchanged texts and surfed Twitter for storm updates, both for our location in lower Westchester County in New York, and for the traditional summer stomping grounds of Beach Haven, New Jersey, a spot of barrier island off the pine barrens where my toes have met sand and salt since the 1960s.
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